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1. Management Structure
• OOO Geokomp — conducts geological surveys and exploration for
nickel and copper porphyry in the south of Central Siberia;
• OOO Intergeoproject — provides advisory services to the Group both
in Russia and abroad on determining the prospects of minerals, acquisition
and analysis of the collected geological information;
• OOO Kingashskaya GRK — holds four licenses for geological exploration
and production of platinum-copper-nickel ores in Krasnoyarsk
Region;
• OOO GRK Gremyakha — holds license for Gremyakha Vyrmes deposit
in the Murmansk Region;
• OOO GRK Bystrinskoye — holds licenses for Bystrinskoye, Kultuminskoye,
Lugokanskoye and Solonechenskoye deposits in the southeast
of the Zabaikalsky Region;
• OOO Bugdainsky Rudnik — holds license for Bugdainskoye deposit.
ENERGY BUSINESS UNIT
The Energy business unit secures energy supplies for the Group and
the Norilsk industrial and Taimyr (Dolgano-Nenets) municipal districts,
and manages other energy assets of the Group.
Due to the absence of alternative energy suppliers in the region, this
business unit provides a complete cycle of energy supply services in
the Norilsk industrial district.
The Energy business unit includes the following entities:
• Norilskenergo Branch — operates three thermal power plants (TPP-1,
TPP-2, TPP-3) in the Taimyr Peninsula and supplies electricity to the
mining operations of the Group in the Taimyr Peninsula. Norilskenergo
power plants operate on gas which they receive from OJSC Taimyrgaz
and OJSC Norilskgazprom;
• OJSC Taimyrenergo — operates two hydropower plants (Ust-
Khantaiskaya HPP and Kureiskaya HPP);
• OJSC NTEC — generates and supplies thermal and electric power
to consumers at assets leased from OJSC Taimyrenergo and OJSC
Norilskenergo;
• OJSC Taimyrgaz — holds license for development of the Pelyatka gas
condensate deposit;
• OJSC Norilskgazprom — has licenses for development of the Severo-
Soleninskoye and Yuzhno-Soleninskoye gas condensate deposits
and the Messoyakhskoye gas deposit.
In addition, Norilsk Nickel has a majority stake in OGK-3, a power
generation company operating six power plants: Kostromskaya GRES,
Cherepetskaya GRES, Pecherskaya GRES, Gusinoozerskaya GRES,
Kharanorskaya GRES and Yuzhnouralskaya GRES.
TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS BUSINESS UNIT
The Transportation and logistics business unit is responsible for
transporting the Company’s cargo by sea, river, rail, road and air,
handling cargo in sea and river ports, storing cargo and overseeing
customs clearance, as well as transportation of passengers and cargo
on domestic airlines.
The Transportation and logistics business unit includes the following
entities:
• Polar Transportation Branch — is involved in receiving and operating
sea and river vessels, loading works, transportation services, freight
transportation, storage and customs clearance of cargo in Norilsk;
• Murmansk Transportation Branch — is involved in rendering transportation
services to the Group and third parties;
• Krasnoyarsk Branch — is involved in rendering transportation services
to the Group and third parties with regard to cargo transported
via the Yenisei River;
• Arkhangelsk Branch — is involved in rendering transportation services
to the Group and third parties with regard to coastal floating
cargoes transported in the Dudinka direction;
• OJSC Arkhangelsk Commercial Sea Port — is engaged in receiving
and operating sea and river vessels, loading works, transportation
and freight services;
• OJSC Yenisei River Shipping Company — is engaged in receiving
and operating river vessels, loading works, transportation and freight
services;
• OOO Norilsk Airport — renders airport on-ground services;
• OJSC Taimyr Airlines — is involved in cargo and passenger transportation;
• Norilsk Nickel Logistics B.V. — is a logistics office in Rotterdam,
Netherlands.
In total the Group has more than 480 fleet units: container carriers,
bulk-carriers, towboats, tankers, barges, crane ships, icebreakers,
icebreaking boats and other equipment. The Group’s Transportation
and logistics business unit employs more than 8,000 people.
In the reporting period, the Group completed construction of proprietary
Arctic fleet consisting of five diesel-electric ships with icebreaking
facilities complying with class ARC 7, classification PMPC, and
equipped with Azipod double-action propellers capable of breaking
the ice up to 1.5 meters thick. The vessels have a freight-carrying capacity
of more than 15,000 tonnes and container capacity of 571 TEU.
In 2009, the Company’s cargo turnover was approximately 3 million
tonnes. In aggregate on all routes, the Company’s vessels performed
57 round trips and transported about 1 million tonnes of various
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